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Free online serial novel (completed now) from DarkFuse: Collected Songs of Sonnelion by Lee Thompson. The chapters were posted as they were written so they are in reverse order. To get to Chapter 1, scroll down this page and keep clicking the little arrow to the right until you see it.

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Currently, there are no other editions planned beyond this free web novel, so please take advantage of reading it now, as it will only be available to read during the period that the novel is being written plus a few weeks after it has been completed. After that, it will be removed. Why are we limiting the time of publication? Because this publishing experiment is meant to be read to coincide with the author’s creative process. You get to read all the new chapters as soon as the author writes them. So any new plot twists or character developments occur quickly from the author’s mind to your reading experience. DarkFuse editors will be performing read-throughs to clean up any simple typos or issues to improve your reading experience.

It is free until 10/1/2012.

This is the third part of the Division Mythos Series.

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#3. COLLECTED SONGS OF SONNELION:

Fall, 1963. Division, Pennsylvania.
Red’s family moves again, seeking solitude and peace in the little town of Division where some of their family is originally from. There he meets a boy named Abraham Nutley who is a few years older than him, and he seems to take to Red, actually like him, but he’s also trouble—more than Red could have ever imagined.

After Amy (Red’s one true love) hitchhikes to Division because there’s nothing meaningful left of her family, and after Abraham introduces Red to his buddy Lucas (both in The Dampness of Mourning fifty years later) Red faces trials that shape him into who he is as an adult, and the shattered, grieving man who has to wear the black velvet gloves.

Red carries secrets from this novel throughout his adult life until he has to help John and Mike beginning with Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children.

Mirrors of Anguish by RP Kraul from small press Immortal Ink Publishing is free at Amazon and Amazon UK.

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Welcome to harmless Belcorte, nestled in these Pocono Mountains. Here, nothing is as it seems.

After her mother dies, young journalist Jill Duport inherits her grandparents’ infamous house. A teenage girl had been murdered in this house by her grandfather—college professor, madman, victim of suicide. His apparition still haunts these halls and empty rooms.

And yet, since his death, a series of grisly killings, all bearing his mark, have gripped Belcorte for decades. Is Grandfather able to commit murder, even after his death, or did he share an enigmatic connection with the unidentified madman known as The Indianhead Reservoir Killer?

Retired police chief Reed Hobson has looked into the killer’s eyes. Reed even remembers shooting the killer, and yet, these events never took place. So he’s told.

A madman waits in a place hidden from the sun, forgotten by time, grooming his spawn of feral children. For his childhood torture, for his suffering, he will make Belcorte pay for its collective sins

God Laughs When You Die. Short stories by Michael Boatman from Dybbuk Press. Free at Amazon and UK.

The Wicked by James Newman, published by Shock Totem, is free at Amazon and UK.

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AN ANCIENT EVIL RISES...BURNS...KILLS...

After a fire consumes the Heller Home for Children, the residents of Morganville, North Carolina thought they knew evil...

They were wrong.

Unaware of the turmoil in their new hometown, the Littles--David, Kate, and seven-year-old Becca--are moving from New York City to Morganville in hopes of repairing their own lives, which were recently shattered by an act of sexual violence.

Before long, David realizes that his family's troubles are worse than he could ever have imagined.

An ancient demon lurks beneath the town of Morganville, an unholy creature conjured into existence by the Heller Home tragedy.

Its name is Moloch.

It is hungry for the souls of the townspeople.

But most of all, Moloch wants the children. It will not rest until it has them.

All of them.

Virginia Creeper by Blaine Pardoe from Hydra Publications is free at Amazon and UK.

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Personal Journal: Blaine Pardoe

“I wasn’t prepared for this, hell, no one was, especially the police. I could wrap my mind around a serial killer back then. Oddly, that was easy especially when these crimes first broke. Serial killers seemed commonplace – almost boring. The Route 211 killings were big news, but only for a few weeks, then the story disappeared, except for those of us involved with the investigation.

“These killings were something more. The Virginia Piedmont had malevolent secrets that were thought long lost and forgotten. The more I dug the more I discovered that these horrific murders spanned centuries. The common link to the savage murders was to the crazy Fitzwater family, but their ties to the crimes were even more sinister than the public ever knew. It was something dark and evil, a killer that didn’t just kill his victims, it performed rituals that still send shivers down my spine.

“Nothing prepared me to face a force of darkness centuries old, one that consumed its victims to cheat death. I always said I had seen everything until that autumn of 1998 when I found myself ensnared in a diabolical growth of Virginia Creeper…

Eleven-year-old Mark Davis wasn’t happy at all that his family was moving to the small town of Stillwater. He worried that he’d miss his old friends and not be able to make new ones. But he’ll soon learn that was the least of his worries. Something deadly is waiting to welcome him to town.

Enjoy this chilling, short companion piece to Ronald Malfi’s new novel to get just a hint of the terrors that await you—and the residents of Stillwater—in The Narrows!

When Sam Melody, a hardworking private detective, meets the beautiful Jasmine Pellitier, the consequences could be deadly. Although Jasmine seems like the perfect woman, she is actually a 2,500-year-old witch… and is being pursued by ancient enemies who will stop at nothing to learn the secret of her powers.

A fascinating marriage of witch-tale and detective yarn, Jasmine’s Tale: Darkness and Light takes the reader from Sam and Jasmine’s adventures in modern-day New York City to her ancient European beginnings and back again, as they try to elude their enemies in a running battle between good and evil.

From ancient times though the Crusades to the Salem Witch Trials and beyond, follow Jasmine and the man she loves in to a final showdown between the powers of Darkness and Light.